Weekend Recap in Pictures

All bundled up in our hotel ready for fun

Dinner Out

Billy Joel/Elton John Face to Face Concert Tour - Oklahoma City

Enjoying the show!!

Loving the sunshine - Checking out the zoo

I Feel Like Dancing

You danced and danced at the Elton John & Billy Joel Face-to-Face Concert this weekend in Oklahoma City... kicking your feet to the music. I am already convinced you’ve got fantastic rhythm... My Tiny Dancer

Your daddy's and my first dance at our wedding was Elton John's "Your Song" - The very first song at the concert tonight was exactly that - just Elton John and Billy Joel on their pianos. My eyes welled up with tears thinking back. I am just amazed at how much we have done in four years, how blessed we have been... and now we are listening to that song again waiting for you to join us and fulfill our lives in a way we cannot even image as we dream about you here with us.

How to Travel with a Pregnant Lady

Tyler and I have been taking a mini vacation/road trip every year for our anniversary but thought that this year, April 8th would be just a little too close to Aliyah's due date to be traveling.... SO... Tyler surprised me by getting concert tickets to the Elton John and Billy Joel Face-to-Face tour in Oklahoma City this weekend. We packed ourselves up and headed there yesterday.

This is some quick advice on how to travel with a pregnant lady...

... according to my husband:

Step 1: Insist that she try to use the bathroom before you leave the house. Even if she says she just went. Make her go again anyway.

Step 2: Question her choice of footwear. Continue to insist she put on sensible flats or even better, tennis shoes, while she stubbornly scoffs at you, hobbles precariously in high heeled boots and tells you that nothing you’ve suggested goes with her outfit.

Step 3: Open her side of the door and then help her into the seat. She will be the most unmaneuverable* human being you’ve encountered in a long time, so some pushing and heaving may be required on your part. Just keep at it, she’ll get situated... eventually.

Step 4: Keep your cool when you are 3 minutes down the road and she looks over at you and says “Honey, when you get a second… can we stop somewhere so I can pee?”

* did I just make that word up?

Glucose Testing

This is face of blegggggggggggh. I had to take the one hour glucose tolerance test for gestational diabetes screening yesterday. It consisted of me drinking a thick, syrupy 'fruit punch' drink that tasted like it had a thousand grams of sugar in it - and was followed up by having to have blood drawn. A big thumbs down on all accounts.

Everything measured perfectly and her heartbeat is strong & healthy! I was told that at this point, I will start seeing the doctor every two weeks now instead of the once a month visits I have been doing. We are getting closer to meeting our sweet Aliyah!

Next up on our check-off list: signing up for our childbirth class, and finishing up the nursery!

Piggy Bank

Apparently, the very dad-like desire of teaching your children to save money has already kicked in for Tyler as we picked up yet another sweet item for our sweet girl.

I am so excited about this lovely piggy bank because I very distinctly remember my childhood bank and how many times I would pull out the plastic plug at the bottom, shake it like crazy, and count my nickels and quarters.

Old Photo

I just couldn't pass up posting this old picture on the blog... I am sandwiched between my two cousins, Randy and Dirk, under the watchful eye of GrandDad. (check out the neon green matching t-shirts!)

I was never too far from "Rea Me" (Rea Marcie) my first of 10 Cabbage Patch Dolls :)

Sophie the Giraffe

What I'm loving today... Sophie the Giraffe

This cute vintage-looking teether is just waiting for a little slobbery, baby mouth to find her!